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Eclipses, New and Full Moons, ingresses, stations, the equinoxes and solstices, meteor showers and exact outer-planet aspects, month by month, from the same engine as the sky.

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Eta Aquariids peak

7

☿︎Mercury stations retrograde05:02

8

Eta Lyrids peak

9

○︎Full Moon 18°40' Scorpio04:02

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11
12
13

☿︎Mercury retrogrades into Taurus23:52

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15
16
17

♄︎Saturn stations direct02:06

18
19
20

☉︎Sun enters Gemini21:50

21
22
23
24

●︎New Moon 3°27' Gemini12:11

25
26
27

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Jupiter03:19

♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile Neptune04:36

♃︎☌︎Jupiter conjunction Neptune20:06

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29

♆︎Neptune stations retrograde04:30

30
31

☿︎Mercury stations direct01:21

♂︎Mars enters Taurus21:18

None this month.

  • ○︎Full Moon 18°40' Scorpio09 May · 04:02
  • ●︎New Moon 3°27' Gemini24 May · 12:11

  • ☿︎Mercury retrogrades into TaurusRx13 May · 23:52
  • ☉︎Sun enters Gemini20 May · 21:50
  • ♂︎Mars enters Taurus31 May · 21:18

  • ☿︎Mercury stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 1°44' Gemini · opens a 24-day retrograde07 May · 05:02
  • ♄︎Saturn stations directstandstill at 14°54' Virgo · closes the 136-day retrograde17 May · 02:06
  • ♆︎Neptune stations retrogradeRxstandstill at 26°28' Aquarius · opens a 160-day retrograde29 May · 04:30
  • ☿︎Mercury stations directstandstill at 22°52' Taurus · closes the 24-day retrograde31 May · 01:21

Equinoxes and solstices

None this month.

Meteor showers

  • ·Eta Aquariids peakup to 50 an hour under a dark sky · comet 1P/Halley06 May
  • ·Eta Lyrids peakup to 3 an hour under a dark sky · comet C/1983 H1 IRAS-Araki-Alcock08 May

  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile JupiterMars 26°26' Aries · Jupiter 26°26' Aquarius27 May · 03:19
  • ♂︎⚹︎Mars sextile NeptuneMars 26°28' Aries · Neptune 26°28' Aquarius27 May · 04:36
  • ♃︎☌︎Jupiter conjunction NeptuneJupiter 26°28' Aquarius · Neptune 26°28' Aquarius27 May · 20:06

All times Universal Time (UT), solved to the minute. Eclipse rows give the kind seen at the best-placed point on Earth and the instant of greatest eclipse; where you stand decides what you see, and a partial or penumbral eclipse is listed on the same terms as a total one. An ingress is the crossing itself; a station is the standstill, as on the retrograde calendar; the equinoxes and solstices are the Sun's cardinal ingresses; meteor peaks are dates from the shower catalogue, not instants; an outer-planet aspect is listed at each exact pass, so a retrograde series is several rows. The Moon's signs and void-of-course windows are on the moon calendar, and every planet's daily position on the ephemeris table. Nothing here is read against a chart: for your own dates see the timeline.